B2Bportales adopts the name Carvajal Information
Bogota, Colombia. November 15, 2011. B2Bportales, a division of specialized publications of Carvajal Information S.A.S., adopts the name of the company to which it belongs, and that is also a part of the Carvajal Group, a multinational organization.

Carvajal Information is one of the most important Latin American companies, leader in the generation of effective business contacts in yellow pages directories, “Business to Business" (B2B) media and a growing number of mobile services as well as internet.

Previously known as Publicar S.A., the company changed its corporative image since the beginning of 2011, as a result of a global strategy of the Group, designed to identify each business starting with its names. The rest of the companies that belong to the same group are now Carvajal Empaques, Carvajal Pulpa y Papel, Carvajal Tecnología y Servicios, Carvajal Educación, Carvajal Espacios and Carvajal Soluciones de Comunicación.

Through it B2B division – known before as B2Bportales- Carvajal Información offers a portfolio of ten Publications that target industrial and service sectors in Latin America, in the fields of packaging and Packaged printing, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics and Retail. This portfolio includes the Publications of Latin American circulation El Empaque, Conversión, Tecnología del Plástico, Reportero Industrial, Metalmecánica Internacional and El Hospital; the magazine Supermercado Moderno, covering Brazil; the directories for the Colombian market Catálogo del Empaque, Catálogo de la Salud and Catálogo de Logística, anda ll the web portals, Electronic newsletters and digital versions of these titles. Aditionally, it offers seminars and trade shows in various sectors covered, and direct marketing services for the advertisers.

The different B2B services of Carvajal Information benefit more than 200,000 professionals in Latin America, who are subscribers to their media, and many manufacturing companies and products and services suppliers all over the world that can contact the markets in the region through these publications.

B2Bportales Restructures its Product Portfolio
Miami, USA. January 14, 2011. B2Bportales, specialized media division of Publicar SA, part of 107-year Grupo Carvajal, initiated a plan to restructure its publications’ portfolio and announced the integration or sale of some of its assets.

Aimed at providing better services to specific B2B communities in Latin America, the plan includes the strengthening of the print and online publications, seminars and marketing services catering to the healthcare, plastics, metalworking, packaging and manufacturing sectors, plus the integration or sale of their existing publications in television, graphic arts, oil & gas and analytical laboratory industries.

Founded in 1985 under the name "Edimedios" to develop technical and business publications throughout Latin America, B2Bportales has experienced a lot of changes in its product portfolio, to meet the demands of the evolving publishing industry. After the launch and acquisition of leading titles in Latin America in the last 25 years, such as TECNOLOGIA DEL PLASTICO, EL HOSPITAL, CONVERSION, METALMECANICA, EL EMPAQUE and REPORTERO INDUSTRIAL, which will remain in its portfolio, B2Bportales joined the specialized media division of Publicar S.A, which owns the Colombian business-to-business directories: Catálogo de la Salud, Catálogo del Empaque and Catálogo de Logística. In 2007, B2Bportales also established its presence in Brazil after acquiring SUPERMERCADO MODERNO and becoming part owner of NEI (Noticiario de Equipamientos Industriais) with Thomas International.

According to the plan, B2Bportales announced in late 2010 the sale of TV y VIDEO magazine, its web site and its successful annual conference and exhibition “Stress Free Digital TV”, to Latin Press Inc., a publishing house based in Miami. Meanwhile, the print and online publications PETROLEO INTERNACIONAL and LABORATORIO Y ANALISIS will be discontinued as of January 2011, while B2Bportales continues to negotiate the possible sale of these assets. Product information services for these sectors will be reinforced in REPORTERO INDUSTRIAL, a publication focused on technology supply for manufacturing and heavy industry sectors, most of which perform analytical processes, including the hydrocarbons and other mineral resources exploitation. Finally, after the publication of its last Jan/Feb 2011 issue, ARTES GRAFICAS magazine, its website and academic events will migrate to CONVERSION, a B2Bportales publication launched in 1992 to cater to the package printing and converting industry.

Subscribers and users of the information solutions provided by B2Bportales, as well as the worldwide suppliers who cater to these industrial communities, will be beneficiated by the announced restructuration. B2Bportales’ new focus on a smaller number of publications and sectors, while realigning the staff of the divested assets, seeks to strengthen the value of the remaining portfolio by assigning added resources to these publications, deepening our knowledge and coverage of the served communities, and by launching new solutions and improving the current media and marketing services offered to our advertisers.

Publicar-B2Bportales is part of Grupo Carvajal, a 107 years Latin American multinational organization, with over 18,000 employees and presence in 18 countries.

B2Bportales is now part of Publicar
Bogota, October 15, 2009. As part of Carvajal S.A.’s strategic plan, which includes maximizing synergies between its companies, B2Bportales, the largest publishing company of trade media in Latin America, is now part of Publicar S.A., regional leader in information services.

Maria Sol Navia, President of Publicar S.A. commented: “Publicar is constantly diversifying its products and services. As a result of this strategy, which now includes the incorporation of B2Bportales to our business, we have developed a vast portfolio of solutions that, without a doubt, allows our users and clients to find the best tools to meet their information and networking needs.”

David Ashe, President of B2Bportales mentioned: “The access B2Bportales gains to the resources and markets of a company the size of Publicar will certainly generate business opportunities in the B2B sector, and will also generate new ways to meet the information and networking needs of our users and advertisers in the ever-changing trade media publishing space.”

Publicar is the leading independent yellow pages and local search company in the region, with presence in 8 Latin American countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panamá, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. It also provides online local search information in 15 Latin American countries through PaginasAmarillas.com: Its sites in Portuguese and Spanish are the portals with the highest number of queries in Latin America. Focusing on the generation of commercial contacts, Publicar has also diversified in the direct marketing field through Contact Center Americas and Contacto Inteligente and publishes a line of specialized trade directories. For more information, please visit: www.publicar.com.

B2Bportales publishes ten print and Internet publications with pan regional coverage in Latin America. The product portfolio includes Artes Gráficas, Conversión, El Empaque, El Hospital, Laboratorio y Análisis, Metalmecánica, Petróleo Internacional, Reportero Industrial, Tecnología del Plástico and TV y Video. In addition, B2Bportales publishes Supermercado Moderno in Brazil with its partner Grupo Lund, and NEI (Noticiario de Equipamentos Industriáis), in partnership with the Grupo Lund and Thomas Publishing Company.

Carvajal S.A. is a 105 year-old Latin American multinational leader in publishing, printing and packaging, with over 20,000 employees and plants in 17 Latin American countries, USA, Spain andChina. For more information, please visit: www.carvajal.com.

8 international speakers confirmed their participation at the II Spanish seminar for Latin-American plastic professionals at NPE 2009
Miami, FL, USA, April 30, 2009. Tecnología del Plástico and Conversión, publications of B2Bportales, will offer the second NPE 2009 Latin-American seminar in Spanish for plastic resins transformers, which will take place during the NPE show, in Chicago, on June 23, 24 and 25.

The objective of this event is to give Latin-American visitors specific market oriented information in their native language, making their visit to Chicago more efficient. Also, enabling them to obtain punctual ideas in order to make their processes and products more competitive.

The expert speakers, which will offer more than 15 conferences grouped in three sessions, will present specific examples of new technologies and applications and provide parameters to take investment decisions when adopting new technologies and materials. The key topics include: strategies for energy saving, technological trends for the production of material packaging and mold injection products, sustainability, design, success cases in Latin America, new products development opportunities and nanocompounds and biodegradable materials.

The confirmed speakers up to date are: Ph.D. Maria del Pilar Noriega, technical director of ICIPC (Institute of Training and Development of Plastic and Rubber); Ph.D. Alberto Rincon, sales manager and cast extrusion product manager for Macro Engineering & Technology; Ph.D. Carlos Serrano, plastic packaging design and development consultant; Ph.D. Marcello D. Villahoz, in charge of new business development, sales and marketing management for various international companies through Mitsui in Latin America; Francisco Alarcon, general manager for Plásticos Ecuatorianos S.A and president of Aliplast, Latin American association of plastics producers; Santiago Archila, manager for the area of advisory services for Husky Injection and Molding Systems; Raul Arias, senior consultant for Latin America’s chemical industry for Nexat, Inc., and Germán Laverde, Latin American sales director for Gloucester Engineering. At the end of each session, industry suppliers will give 10 minute presentations about specific products and applications for the Latin American market.

For detailed information about the speakers and academic program please visit: www.plastico.com/seminarios/npe09/

Carvajal's B2Bportales partners with Brazil's Lund Publishing Group
The alliance seeks to accelerate the group's growth in the Latin American B2B market
São Paulo (August 15, 2007). The Carvajal Organization, a Latin American multinational that operates in 18 countries, has just completed negotiations to acquire a majority shareholding in the Grupo Lund de Editoras Asociadas (Lund Publishing Group) of Brazil. The association will take place through the B2Bportales Company, which is part of the Grupo Editorial Norma, a member of the Carvajal Organization.

The new association consolidates Carvajal's growth within the business publications market in Brazil and Latin America. The publishers of the Grupo Lund, with 47 years of experience in the Brazilian market, have 30% of the Business to Business (B2B) magazine and publications market in the industrial area and in retail sales, with three of the sector's most important publications: Supermercado Moderno (Modern Supermarket) magazine aimed at the retail market, and in a joint venture with Thomas International Publishing Co., NEI (Noticiário de Equipamentos Industriais) magazine and the annual Guia-NEI, aimed at the industrial market. These three publications reach 220,000 qualified readers and serve 1,200 advertisers, including Internet and CD-ROM versions.

NEI was launched in 1973 to reach the growing Brazilian industrial segment, through a joint venture between Grupo Lund and Thomas International Publishing Co. Thomas, founded in 1898, is one of the world's most respected B2B publishers, with a presence in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. The firm is internationally known for its Thomas Industrial Network products (successor to Thomas Register of American Manufacturers), for the Thomas Global Register, and for IEN (Industrial Equipment News) magazine in its US and international versions.

"This union of strengths between B2Bportales, the Grupo Lund and Thomas International Publishing Co. opens a wide range of opportunities for business expansion in Brazil and in the rest of Latin America. It is a perfect marriage between strong, traditional and reliable publishers in the markets where they operate. Through this association, the resulting organization will manage a larger number of B2B publications, which will enable us to expand even more the possibilities for communication and generation of business contacts in the sectors that we serve", explained David Ashe, president of B2Bportales. In addition to the publications in this area that B2Bportales already manages (Metalmecánica, Artes Gráficas, Conversión, El Empaque, Tecnología del Plástico, El Hospital, Laboratorio y Análisis, TV y Video, Petróleo Internacional, World Industrial Reporter and Reportero Industrial), Carvajal will be operating in the Latin American market with a total of 14 publications dealing with diverse sectors of industry and trade.

"For the Grupo Lund, a big factor in deciding to create this alliance was the affinity of values and vision in running the business. The two organizations have a proud tradition of ethics and social responsibility while seeking the highest possible quality for their products and services", according to Cody Lund, president of Grupo Lund, now associated with Carvajal. “We see this union as a natural evolution of our 35-year business presence in Latin America, one that provides outstanding opportunities for growth throughout the region,” added John Lindsey, President of Thomas International Publishing Co. "The B2B market grows more and more promising as the provision of services gains ground in the world economy, requiring an ever greater number of associations between companies from different areas. Carvajal in this market acts to provide quality information to foster the success of B2B relationships and the growth of organizations. That is why our alliances place priority on recognized and solid companies like the Grupo Lund, which has been in the Brazilian market since 1960", concluded Ashe.

About the Carvajal Organization
The Carvajal Organization is composed of a series of businesses developed to efficiently address its clients' diverse needs. Today, Carvajal is a Latin American multinational with more than 20,000 employees throughout the world, with operations in 18 countries with plant operations in 9 of them, and which exports products and services to 65 countries. Carvajal is divided into 14 business groups, which include: provision of administrative services and support; products and services for education; database-supported information services, printing, packaging, publishing, internet commerce services and telecommunications. The Organization is present in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In Brazil, Carvajal operates the Publicar company (which publishes telephone directories and yellow pages under the brand names Editel, Listel and Guía Mais), printing company Cargraphics, school supply company Caderbrás Bico Internacional, GC2 in the shared service business, and its call center Contact Center Americas.

About the Grupo Lund de Editoras Asociadas
Founded in 1960 and today employing 220 professionals, Grupo Lund's publications have a total readership of 220,000 business decision-makers in the Brazilian market, where it publishes Supermercado Moderno, the leading publication in food and food service retailing, and in partnership with the Thomas International Publishing Company, the Noticiário de Equipamentos Industrias (NEI) products in magazine, printed guide, online and CD formats.

About Thomas International Publishing Company
Thomas International Publishing Company is the international arm of Thomas Publishing Co. LLC, based in New York, USA. Thomas has been active internationally since the early 1970’s, launching publishing ventures in Europe, Japan and Brazil, and subsequently in India, Mexico, China, Turkey and other important global markets. The mission of Thomas for over 100 years has been to provide essential product and sourcing information to industrial buyers, first in print directories and periodicals, and since 1995 over the web. Among the major products of Thomas are ThomasNet, the internet’s leading industrial vertical site, providing complete purchasing information about North American suppliers, ThomasGlobal, the international industrial purchasing destination site, Industrial Equipment News (US), the original product news tabloid, Inbound Logistics, the leading publication in the logistics field, Managing Automation, IEN-Europe, Produits Equipements Industriels (France), Technische Revue (Germany), IEN-Italy, IEN-Japan, NEP-Japan and the Thomas Register of Indian Manufacturers (TRIM).